Letters
Is being a doctor a vocation?
To maintain ethical medical practices, we must not underplay the vocational aspect of medicine
BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1266 (Published 31 March 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m1266
- John DiLallo, child and adolescent psychiatrist
- New York, NY 10010, USA
- drjohndi{at}gmail.com
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” William Osler
Most professions probably contain a tension between the vocational ideal and the everyday nitty gritty of the work.1 But for doctors, the vocational aspect seems …
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